The following errata report has been submitted for RFC8460,
"SMTP TLS Reporting".

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You may review the report below and at:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid8582

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Type: Technical
Reported by: Ömer Güven <[email protected]>

Section: 5.1 (and 4.4)

Original Text
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filename        = sender "!" policy-domain "!" begin-timestamp
                      "!" end-timestamp [ "!" unique-id ] "." extension

Corrected Text
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filename        = sender "!" recipient-domain "!" begin-timestamp
                      "!" end-timestamp [ "!" unique-id ] "." extension

Notes
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Section 5.1 currently mandates that the TLSRPT filename be constructed with 
policy-domain. The policy-domain as defined in Section 1.1 may differ from the 
recipient domain (MX host for DANE and undefined for no-policy-found cases) and 
is already included in the JSON.

In practice, TLSRPT filenames almost always contain the recipient domain, which 
is defined earlier in the RFC but never included in the JSON itself. 
Implementing Section 5.1 literally (using the policy-domain instead of the 
recipient domain) would break TLSRPT for shared report mailboxes. For example:

- Multiple customer domains sharing an MX provider
- External MX smart hosts implementing DANE, where the policy-domain is the MX 
hostname providing TLSA records

In these cases, the report recipient cannot reliably determine which recipient 
domain the report is aimed at if only the policy-domain is used in the filename.

Suggested correction:

1. Update the filename ABNF to use the recipient domain instead of the 
policy-domain to reflect the status quo.

2. Include a consistent recipient-domain field in the TLSRPT JSON for 
unambiguous identification.

This ensures parsers can reliably determine which recipient domain the report 
is intended for, preserves TLSRPT’s usefulness for shared mailboxes, and allows 
easier and standardized implementation across different reporting environments.

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RFC8460 (draft-ietf-uta-smtp-tlsrpt-23)
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Title               : SMTP TLS Reporting
Publication Date    : September 2018
Author(s)           : D. Margolis, A. Brotman, B. Ramakrishnan, J. Jones, M. 
Risher
Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
Source              : Using TLS in Applications
Stream              : IETF
Verifying Party     : IESG

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